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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obey.

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Examples

  • The coin obeys all the laws of physics, yet the outcome of the flip is random, in the sense that there's no design to the result.

    Evolution News & Views 2009

  • Emotional recall obeys the forces that bend the peal of a passing bell and warp the color of distant stars.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • Emotional recall obeys the forces that bend the peal of a passing bell and warp the color of distant stars.

    Memory and redshift 2009

  • Emotional recall obeys the forces that bend the peal of a passing bell and warp the color of distant stars.

    The rhetorical orgin of Sarah Palin's "death panel" 2009

  • Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified.

    IX. Essays. Circles. 1841 1909

  • Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified.

    Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842

  • Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified.

    Essays — First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842

  • Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified.

    Essays: First Series (1841) 1841

  • A flipped coin obeys all of the laws of physics; its motion is entirely deterministic.

    Evolution News & Views 2009

  • A flipped coin obeys all of the laws of physics; its motion is entirely deterministic.

    Evolution News & Views 2009

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